Chortle vs Titter - What's the difference?

Titter is a synonym of chortle.

is that chortle is a joyful, somewhat muffled laugh, rather like a snorting chuckle while titter is a nervous or repressed giggle.

is that chortle is to laugh with a chortle or chortles while titter is to laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued manner.

(en noun)

A joyful, somewhat muffled laugh, rather like a snorting chuckle.

He frequently interrupted himself with chortles while he told us his favorite joke.

* chuckle

To laugh with a chortle or chortles.

The old fellow chortled as he recalled his youthful adventures.

* 1871 — , Jabberwocky

'O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy.

* chuckle * See also

(en noun)

A nervous or repressed giggle.

* Coleridge

There was a titter of delight on his countenance.

(slang, vulgar, chiefly, in the plural) A woman's breast.

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“The poor dear, even her titters are weighted down with melancholy,” Pearle said to Mable.

“I don't know what you're talking about. Her titters look perky enough to me,” Mable replied.

* (sense, a woman's breast) See also .

To laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued manner.

* Longfellow

A group of tittering pages ran before.

(obsolete) To teeter; to seesaw.

* See also